skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>other factors like free time have worsened if compared with centuries ago.

This might be true if you consider being holed up with your family for the entirety of winter as "free time." Also, these studies always neglect the amount of random work that needed to be done before technology (e.g. fetching water from a well, chopping firewood, weaving baskets, etc).
Microsoft is working to reduce Teams memory usage
> At the very minimum you would need a centralized discovery server.

That's not necessarily true. You could use a DHT. Or have decentralized discovery servers, i.e. your username is user@example.com and then example.com is contacted to coordinate direct communication with user. Or for local networks, use multicast service discovery to find local users.
> Look at HN - how many commenters do you personally recognize

It would be 0 for me.

Twitter is better for me in that way, but because is only short interactions, it's not like I'm close to them.

With forums it was way better, for me at least. It felt like family, and in 1 forum I was, we actually had like a 'newbie adoption' thing. With many people there, we actually ended up being internet friends, while on Twitter we might be more like acquaintances.
I would say that is a major factual error in the article.

Although the barges are less glamorous than rocket stages, they are reused more times, and so are more permanent a tribute.
If you respect freedom and tolerance of religion, I will hold you to respect my worship space in the IKEA showroom. Plywood is my god and IKEA is his messenger. For this reason, I think it's perfectly fair that IKEA gets the same treatment as any Church. If I ever open my own business, I will make sure to register is a non-profit religious organization as well. If you don't like the loophole, take it out of legislation -- everything here is above board, legally speaking.
not sure if the world can count on his moral value, but more competition is always good. If the narrative of generic drug pricing fixing is true, it would be a wonderful business opportunity as well.
Their original product was a pretty shameless carbon copy of github even down to the logo.

But their CI and other tools expanding, they seem to have come into their own.

For a few years, it seems like GitHub had completely stagnated and was riddled with politics and infighting. But they seem to have found their momentum again. We might switch back to GitHub because GitLab feels just messy and less polished right now.
Similar to a sibling comment, I really enjoy this page & site - even though I was already expecting it to be good.

Well done to whatever tasteful individuals designed and executed/approved those decisions.
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Topologist in Court: "Do you promise to tell the truth, the hole truth, and nothing but the truth?" <g>

Rapper Ludacris as Topologist: "I got holes... in different area codes, area codes..." <g>
just look at how it's been damaging to queer teens... oh wait... not they aren't killing themselves like before... neverind.
As an example of this, forms were in the HTML 2 spec of 1995, and you’ll recognise every last part of it as still working exactly the same way: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html. (<input type=image> has fallen into disuse and <input type=reset> is rare and generally discouraged, but all the rest is still universally used.)
Walmart sells furniture, so Walmart is the Walmart of furniture.
> Healthcare can never be a free market in this sense, because the customer is faced with a choice of "buy service and/or product" or "be dead".

What you're referring to here is a high "price elasticity of demand", and markets are used to provision all sorts of goods for which this is true. Food, for example, is predominately provisioned by the market, and consumers are constantly faced with a choice of "buy food" or "starve to death".
Jason from Elastic here.

I want to clarify one aspect here. Elasticsearch and Kibana will be dual licensed under the Elastic License or the SSPL license, not only SSPL. The distributions that we provide will be licensed under the Elastic License, which does not have the copyleft requirements that are sometimes concerning to legal teams.

That is, if you download our distribution and run it in your infrastructure, you are subject to the Elastic License. The same license that most (90%+) of our users are already running under today, when they download our default distribution from elastic.co. This is why we say the vast majority of our users are not impacted by this change.

Note: we are considering making changes to the Elastic License to simplify it. Please see more on our [blog][0].

Disclaimer: I am on the Elasticsearch team and work for Elastic; I welcome any and all feedback.

[0]: https://www.elastic.co/blog/license-change-clarification
That was a great explanation, thank you.
> They are ABSOLUTELY going to intervene here.

I wouldn't be so certain about this at all. Matt Levine has a good take on it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-26/will-w...
Do you think the online queer community is better or worse after Tumblr's self destruction?
Prior to the MS acquisition Gitlab had a much better CI story. MS has been grafting all of its DevOps tooling onto Github since the purchase so it is a bit more even now
What happens to money created by debt in the US?
I don't care if it is rebranding inexpensive Indian generics so long as they are vouching for the quality.
What I learned from Studying 100 Internal Chrome Extensions
I've been hunting for a good decompressor to use in a low ram microcontroller, for instance, an ARM Cortex M0. I've read an article [1] on LZ4 decompression on the Cortex, but I couldn't understand what kind of memory requirements are needed.

I've yet to really understand what kind of footprint LZ4 uses, and if it's dependent on dictionary size used to compress. What if I have, say, 4KB that I could use to store in-place decompression. Is that related to the compression ratio?

[1] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...
Could be "plastic consumerism" but it could also be material freedom and mobility: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/10/does-ikea-enable-mobility...
I'm in a computational lab, but I think I understand what you're describing. My medical school was acquired a few years ago by a hospital network, encouraging us to collaborate with our new clinical researchers. The medical school itself had a strong background in rigorous basic research with animal models, and the clinical samples are a relatively smooth transition. The data is obviously nowhere as clean or plentiful as with animal models, but that's to be expected.

So for example, my lab's expertise was in single cell developmental models, primarily for organ development in mice. Extended that to tumors from clinical samples was relatively straightforward. One of my colleagues is working on an autism dataset, but I wouldn't expect that to be nowhere nearly as clean.
That's not entirely accurate and that's not even the meaning of free market.

Water is also a necessity as is food and you can have a free market for those.

The questions are:
1. Does the buyer have enough choices or alternatives to choose from when it comes to healthcare?
2. Do those who offer services have a monopoly on the service?

When you look at the US market you'll find that it doesn't meet those criterias. Market forces are prevented from acting and being able to reduce costs.

The fact that there is a captive audience, as you suggest, means that we cannot just shovel money into it. You end up exactly where you are. Costs go up because it is a necessity. Same reason food prices go up when there is a shortage. It is not a luxury.
Well, sometimes they get things right, like (only stretching slightly) alcohol, which is not great in excess. You have to consider these things individually rather than trying to draw generalizations like "all puritan backlash is wrong."
doubt it.
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The real Mother Teresa was no 'Mother Teresa.'
Most in my state (CA) also have fully functional pharmacies, and the prescription drug prices are much cheaper much of the time. I shopped around when I went through a period of poor insurance (years ago) and my monthly medication costs were $25 at Costco, and the nearest competitor I could find was just over $100 when paying cash. Also, I believe that California, you do not need a Costco membership to purchase from the Costco pharmacy.
It's down to the market. There aren't that many beginner or mid-level jobs in the field and there is a big oversupply of candidates. I wouldn't recommend data science or machine learning to people who are changing career direction or need to invest a lot of time/money/effort to catch up with all the theory. Not that it's impossible, just very hard. It's also getting more and more gatekept over time with increasing requirements for advanced degrees.
To be fair, a separate machine is exactly how you should run proprietary blobs. Although I certainly wouldn't want the increased administration overhead of tinkering with this when it inevitably breaks, compared to the Free solutions that are generally rock solid.
Pity that you must expose everyone’s passwords in plain text to achieve this (those older browsers won’t support TLS).
I hear the hype. I see a few big winners, but there are a lot of people piling on that don’t know the first thing about why prices go up and down.
I don't really care if two people would both rather do that (except that it's kind of sad for them). But similar to the GP, I have some older relatives and acquaintances who do this constantly no matter who they're with. They seemingly just don't think there's anything wrong with it.
If you really want to be frugal, why not go all John Rambo style and just cauterize the wound with some gunpowder? It's probably <$2 for enough to make sure you don't bleed out.
Yes. I really don't understand the constant war against text.
My mind is blown. But I'm an anticonspiracy theorist. What can explain why race differences move us so much more than class?
I didn't think of publishing focusing on business models as something in opposition to the public good. I think, if anything, it demonstrates just how valuable and powerful and necessary these elements are for a well-functioning society. And as integral parts, it would likely need a stronger relationship with government to better ensure it serves the public good. And when, for many, sites like Facebook at the primary source of news, it means that govt has to address it as more than just a "private business".
I try to pair program with others any chance I get. It depends on the person, but usually I feel like we are being more productive than two individuals. Problems are solved faster, decisions are easier and we are also knowledge sharing and learning at the same time.

I do say it depends though, I think that if the skill level is too far apart it becomes more like a knowledge transfer or teaching, which feels way less productive (even if it is productive). I am also not advocating for this full time.

Some people hate it, I would love to hear some arguments against it.
Apollo client and Elixir LiveView are solving most of these.
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The name let me to think it was related to Cost Plus World Market, the home goods store.

https://www.worldmarket.com
Yes, your second paragraph was basically what I thought was the case, it does seem quite recent. I don't have access to the Knuth article, I'd love to know what he means. Ramon Llull maybe?
I think a lot of that comes down to his background. Mark Cuban is from a very blue collar background. Compare that to Bezos/Musk/Gates/Zuckerberg, all of whom were from money.
The costs are high across the system, including government sponsored programs like Medicare. It's a systemic problem and even touches software.

https://maxwelljordan.medium.com/why-healthcare-in-us-is-so-...
I agree to some degree about how standardized and effective medicine is now.

But it's not at all true that medicine up to 1900 was largely ineffective... Medicine even way way back in ancient times was pretty effective (not the level it is now but neither was it "largely ineffective" that's just not historically true).
When are they going after voter fraud?
This comes shockingly close to my experience growing up playing WoW.
I think syops criticism applies to the combined dynamic of the 2 American political parties and mainstream narratives, rather than either one specifically.
I must be missing something then.

In the current system you walk in and hand them your card (insurance, Medicare, medicaid, etc) and they treat you. You get mailed a bill later.

Tax funded systems would be similar. Walk in, give them your ID/card and get treated. Get a bill if it's a taxable condition (like Italy).

Obviously there are other non-payment related differences like scheduling and what's covered.
Fair enough, I used "home" but it could just as easily be anywhere else the car is stored: garage, office building, even public streets maybe. Going to a filling station is just too slow to be the main way to charge. No EV owner wants to dedicate 30 minutes a week twiddling their thumbs while the car charges. I just can't see a dedicated filling station will be part of the regular routine for most EV owners the way it necessarily is for gas cars.
Places have tried this (look up the history of "literacy tests"), and it mostly functioned as a mechanism to discriminate against voters of certain classes. Long term, if you have a test to vote and, say, people somewhere don't tend to vote the way you like, but you have control of the funding for their education system, it's easy enough to make decisions that net reduce that population's ability to vote.
How do you feel about the fact that these existed and were outlawed? https://ballotpedia.org/Literacy_as_a_requirement_for_voting
Your analysis of schools doesn't seem so far-off for me, and it's not unreasonable to say that not every aspect of social life should be measured by a calculus of upsides to badsides. The utilitarian 'weighing' mode of thinking is not appropriate for every situation, and I think you (inadvertently) made a good case for why, at least with schools. The fact that schools also educate can be worked into an analysis even of the 'bad sides' as not contingent, but a part of the same system that creates the 'bad sides'.

The very fact that we consider weighing the 'upsides' of something is if we give it, or part of it, legitimacy in the first place - legitimacy that may not be deserved. I'm silent on the topic of social media, but we wouldn't even begin to consider the 'upside' of murder or rape or defamation, for instance - and that's not because people in the past have done that analysis for us, it's because collective experience has shown the analysis isn't worth doing - that the utilitarian analysis is the wrong method to apply to the question, just as there are good and bad methods in science or philosophy.
This is great, do Insulin now.
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That luddite standard of "expected to know all upsides and downsides of something novel" bugs the royal crap out of me. It not only demands omniscience but implicitly assumes perfection of the status quo by not holding it to the same standards. To call forums for speech reckless is a very novel standard that back in the 90s and 00s would get you mocked as sounding like a third world dictator.
No bicycle parking, at the store I visit.
There are two options when you're rich like Cuban is (clearly there's more but to dumb it down).

You can acknowledge that while it took hard work, and luck to get where you are, you likely would not have done it if you hadn't been born into a society that fosters the ability to move up the social ranks. If Mark Cuban were born in Libya there's almost no chance he becomes a billionaire for instance.

Or you can pretend like the reason you're rich is solely of your own doing, and that the world owes you something.

Cuban seems to be the former, and while he's not going to volunteer to just give all his money away, he is trying to help society collectively improve. It's a stark contrast between his approach and say, the Koch brothers.

I guess the best way I'd put it is Cuban is a capitalist who believes in the social contract.
How do you feel you know this?

My impression of Mark Cuban has been built up over the years from a variety of sources, ranging from a brief in-person encounter[1] with him, to reading his book, his blog posts, etc., to seeing him on TV in various forms, interviews he's done, etc. There isn't exactly one specific thing that stands out by itself.

All of that said, it's a very subjective thing, and for all I know Mark works very hard to cultivate that specific image for his own ends. I have no problem saying that my impression could be wrong. But based on the limited evidence I have available, that's where I'm at with it at the moment.

[1]: I don't typically hang out with billionaires or anything. The only reason I've met Cuban is because he was once a keynote speaker at an event I attended. After his speech he hung out with the hoi polloi and mingled and interacted with people. I spent maybe 3 minutes chatting with him personally about my business, and maybe another 10-15 minutes listening to him talk to a small crowd that gathered around him. To be fair, that encounter probably went as far in shaping my impression of him as anything. I think the single biggest thing was that he displayed no condescension or smug superiority or anything towards people who weren't on his financial level. He was respectful, attentive, and reasonable even when talking with some rando like me.
If you're cauterizing a wound, you wouldn't use gunpowder.

A sterile suture kit is about $2 as well.
Lots of other good web archiving tools to try in the wiki too:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...
I think it depends where you live.

My parents bought a home in 1988 for $100k and sold it six years later for $120k. Zillow says it’s worth $590k now. They bought their next home in 1994 for $180k, and it’s now appraised at $650k. This is Sacramento, CA.

By the way, they pay about $3k/year in property taxes, while a new homeowner pays about triple that. If property taxes weren’t kept so artificially low for long time homeowners, I don’t think property prices would have gone up so much.
Thanks for correcting me!

> We do want to make it fully open source!

This begs the question: isn't "a restrictive OSS licence" not less "fully open source" than a more permissive licence like GPL, MIT or BSD?

If you are fully committed to OSS, why not go full-oss, instead of retaining control through a restrictive OSS licence?

Is that really only because of some enterprises not liking GPL?
I would also be weary. They had similar fanposts before.

Unless there is evidence that the quality did improve, I'll wait.
> The specific meds he prescribed were chosen as these are what the insurance company would prefer from a clinical perspective although they were extremely unlikely to help.

I work close enough to healthcare that I can say that while insurers do take cost of treatment into account they are looking to minimize ongoing treatment costs - if there is a 5$ pill and a 500$ pill available for treatment the insurer may prefer to trial you initially on the 5$ pill if it's been proven effective for a good proportion of patients, but they do use calculations to minimize those ongoing costs that includes costs from condition escalation (i.e. if you have a boil you're absolutely going to get antibiotics covered since dealing with a septic boil is an emergency room visit.
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By and large this country is very lucky with the billionaires it continues to produce: Bezos, Cuba, Buffet, Gates, Paul Allen, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Musk, etc, all seem to be incredible people who are committed to do good. I think it has something to do with the fact that these people are self-made and for the most part made their billions without having to sell their souls to the devil.
The merit in clarity and precision has less to do with your particular occupation or averageness and more to do with raising the floor for intelligent discussion upwards.

One of the things we debate as a society is taxes, because we live with them, pay them and discuss the services and salaries these taxes pay for. It is therefore incumbent upon participants to put their best foot forward in the larger discussion, and equating avoidance with evasion mimics vapid and hollow rhetoric. Else why bother to participate?

It is fair to criticize IKEA and you can certainly stake out a position as an adversary to their tax avoidance scheme without equating it with tax evasion out of a sort of intellectual laziness for one is within the realm of legislative discretion and the other within the real prosecutorial discretion and lead to two entirely different discussions.
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This post is hard to digest - it is a rant on 10 different things. All are valid hurdles but I don't see how we can just tie it all up in a bag and call it "data fetching".

Architectures are what help solve these sorts of problems - not tools or libraries. Placing the blame on tools means the real issue has not been identified.
its a real shame too because the pascal langauge is quite nice and would hold its own against zig or c++. I would even learn the free version and potentially invest in the paid version if it ran on osx or linux. Anything thats windows only is a hard no for me.
> Using a div as a button is not "bog-standard" HTML or a "standard component". Use a button and be done with it.

Fully agree. In fact that is exactly point I was trying to make.
Part of that is probably the lower volume, so they have to amortize the costs over fewer procedures. Most pet injuries don't need an MRI or if the injury/illness is that bad the euthanasia or palliative only option is more considered.
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No, it's not "someone moves to CA and later becomes homeless."

It's someone becomes homeless and their home city doesn't want to pay to deal with it, so they buy them a $5 bus ticket to LA.

Steve Lopez, the journalist I was referring to, interviewed a group of homeless living in Hollywood in one of his articles. All of the individuals were homeless prior to coming to LA, and almost all of them had been sent here.
This could be really helpful in the embedded space on devices like the ESP32 which offer both the BTLE radio required to advertise the feature and the WiFi radio to make use of it.
A 3D model of Tux, the Linux mascot
> we can have perfect equality where everyone lives as the average person below poverty line today

Well, no, we probably can't. Inequality can be mitigated, but it can’t be eliminated, especially durably.

> Would that be a better society considering your arguments?

That's really an objectively unanswerable question for many reasons. You can't really measure, on more than an ordinal scale, individual utility, or aggregate it, except by interposing non-objective judgements. Would it be better for lots of people currently above the poverty line? Maybe, depends how far below the poverty line the equal society was.
But this isn't a narrative any of those institutional investors seem to believe. Michael Burry himself says that the current rally is "unnatural, insane, and dangerous", reports that he's closed his position, and is calling for legal and regulatory fixes to prevent this kind of situation from happening in the future. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/michael-b...)